Joseph Lubin
Founder, Consensus Systems

Joseph Lubin is a cofounder of blockchain computing platform Ethereum and the founder of Consensus Systems (ConsenSys), a blockchain venture studio. ConsenSys is one of the largest and fastest-growing companies in the blockchain technology space, building developer tools, decentralized applications, and solutions for enterprises and governments that harness the power of Ethereum. Previously, Joseph was a software engineer and consultant, where he worked with eMagine on the Identrus project and was involved in the founding and operation of a hedge fund with a partner; was director of the New York office of Blacksmith Software Consulting and vice president of technology in private wealth management at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on the intersection of cryptography, engineering, and finance; and worked in the Princeton Robotics Lab, at tomandandy music, where he developed an autonomous music composition tool, and at private research firm Vision Applications Inc., where he built autonomous mobile robots. He also spent time in Kingston, Jamaica, working on projects in the music industry. Joseph holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.

Ethereum is a world computer on top of a peer-to-peer network that runs smart contracts - applications that run exactly as programmed without the possibility of censorship, fraud, or third-party interference. Until now, businesses had to build their systems on database technologies that resulted in siloed and redundant information in typically adversarial contexts.
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